A little over a year ago, a young female student of Hamilton’s McMaster U. out for an afternoon stroll on one of the many wooded trails in the vicinity of its campus, was viciously attacked by Tony Gordon, a drug addicted criminal who had been released from prison only two days earlier. As noted by Susan Clairmont in the Oct. 5 edition of The Hamilton Spectator, Gordon had 55 [!] prior convictions that included sexual assaults and 20 brazen breaches of various court orders. Clearly, he has nothing but disdain for either other People or the Rule of Law.
Saved from possible death by the fortuitous intervention of a passerby, the young woman in question, now afflicted with depression, anxiety and insomnia, is taking prescription drugs in an attempt to rediscover the peace and joy of her past life.
Ontario Justice Michael Wendl, citing Gordon’s apparent lack of remorse and the probability that he would re-offend, sought to impose the maximum sentence possible in his recent court ruling. Absurdly, given mandated allowances for Gordon’s time served in custody as well as his Indigenous Identity, that sentence amounted to slightly more than 18 months. Susan Clairmont was rightly appalled.
In the summer of 2020, Darian Hailey Henderson-Bellman, a 25 year old resident of Brampton, Ont., a town just west of Toronto, was shot to death by Darnell Reid with whom she had at one time been involved in a demonstrably abusive relationship. Having been arrested four times for failing to comply with court orders demanding he stay away from her, Reid was nevertheless released with a GPS monitoring device designed to assure her safety. Apparently the geniuses responsible for this decision had learned nothing from his utter disregard for their previous rulings. Apparently the realities of Human Nature are irrelevant to those concerned with the “rights” of recidivist criminals even at the expense of their innocent victims. Apparently the concept of Human Evil is an antediluvian religious fiction.
The Police Chief of the Brampton area, Nishan Duraiappah, saw Darian’s death as a result of the utter incompetence of Canada’s legal system. “The sadness I feel for the victim and her family,” he said, “is mixed with frustration for a complete failure of our justice system to protect her…..” Described by her parents as a “beautiful, big-hearted person,” they will no doubt lament her passing every day for the rest of their tormented lives.
Indigenous man Myles Sanderson, with 59 convictions in his past, was nevertheless free in early Sept. to slaughter 11 innocent people in Saskatchewan. The parole board that released him from custody in February had stated that he did not represent “an undue risk” to the public at large. This delusional verdict was no doubt influenced by his Indigenous Identity, his lifelong drug abuse and violent behavior, in the ethos of the Left, clearly being Canada’s fault rather than his own. Sadly, ironically, most [all?] of those he killed were Indigenous.
While I have focused on Canada, the same pathologically unrealistic policies have come to infect multiple Democratically-ruled American States. The Blaze never stops publishing stories of horrific crimes committed by violent offenders which any sane society would long ago have removed from its streets. Ironically, George Floyd was one such. While the “compassionate” Left has erected shrines in his honor, I see little evidence of its empathy for the thousands of law abiding Americans whose lives are affected annually by those such as he, be it through the ever escalating pillaging of their homes and businesses or the loss of a loved one at the hands of some degenerate animal.
[ Unbelievable! Did you know that in Minneapolis, 1 out of every 84 citizens is likely to be the victim of a violent crime? ]
There is no room here for a discussion of the initiatives of countries such as Canada and the U.S. which insist on spending hundreds of millions in the pursuit of what I would suggest is a highly superficial definition of social justice. But what is unarguably true is that the safety of its law abiding citizens must be a top priority of any genuinely democratic government. The hypocrisy of the residents of Martha’s Vineyard who freaked upon the arrival of a few illegal aliens into their midst is typical of the hypocrisy of those who promote truly permissive legal protocols in the knowledge that the results of their stupidity are not likely to ever darken their doors. To me the death of a single innocent citizen at the hands of some recidivist criminal ought to be grounds enough for our “compassionate” leaders to utterly reassess their priorities. To me the death of a single young woman murdered by some disgusting piece of excrement who had beaten her repeatedly yet was still free to do so again, ought to inspire all “liberal” district attorneys to abandon the very basis of their so-called liberalism.